Forgotten Attachment Detector from Microsoft Office Labs is going to change your life. I don’t know about the rest of you Microsoft Outlook 2010 users, but every time someone sends me an email where they’ve forgotten an attachment, my regard for their intelligence is debased by two full percentage points. To make them feel even [...]
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Your Groovy Guide To Black Friday 2010 Tech Deals
Every year on the last Friday in November, millions of Americans surge through stores everywhere in search of some killer shopping deals. Of the many, few are lucky enough to get in on some great doorbuster deals and score some nice loot at half price or better. If you want in on the action, this [...]
How to Automatically BCC in Outlook 2010
Article summary: A step-by-step screenshot tutorial for automatically BCCing an email address for all outgoing Outlook messages. From Outlook 2007 to Outlook 2010, Microsoft removed the BCC field. We’ll show you how to add the BCC field back in. To auto BCC in Outlook, we’ll need to show the developer tab and add a script. [...]
How To Flush The DNS Cache In Windows 7
A Domain Name System (DNS) is the database of web addresses and what IP address they correlate to. When your internet browser resolves one of these addresses, Windows stores that data in a cache to improve performance the next time you visit the said domain name. This works out to your benefit most of the [...]
How To Block Failed Login Attempts In Windows 7
Even if you put a password on your computer, that doesn’t stop someone from breaking in by using a brute force password guessing technique. Although more of a problem for Laptops than your home desktop, I’m going to show you a trick used by almost all corporations who run Windows. Essentially what were going to [...]
How To Remove Ads From Windows Live Messenger 2011
Windows Live Messenger (previously MSN Messenger) is a groovy way to communicate with your friends online, but the advertisements are really annoying and often inappropriate. Thankfully Microsoft routes all of the ads on messenger through one unique address, all we have to do is block it and those ads will be gone for good. Step [...]
Synergy: Share Your Keyboard-Mouse with Multiple Mac, Windows or Linux Computers
Even though I’m neither a day trader nor a 3-D animator, I number myself among the cult of multiple monitor enthusiasts. But I also align myself among those who use both OS X and Windows 7 regularly (and occasionally Linux). The one camp that I don’t particularly feel at home in is the virtualization crowd. [...]
How To Add Program Associations To File Types In Windows 7
Some files in Windows need to be opened using a specific program. The problem is, it’s a pain to open up the program first and then Select the file. In this groovy guide we’ll look at one method for associating a file types to a specific application of our choice so the next time we [...]
How To Become A Mac App Developer
This week Apple began accepting submissions for the upcoming Mac App Store, the OS X equivalent of the iOS iTunes based App Store. For Mac users this is a big deal; what Steam Powered has done for games, Apple is doing for Mac applications. This also means a big opportunity for people who never jumped [...]
How To Create A Custom Bullet For Lists In Word 2010
No doubt if you use Word 2010 you’ve probably created a list at some point. The default bullets are usually just fine however if you want to stand out and have a unique document then using custom bullets for your lists might just add that extra pizazz your looking for to stand out. Plus, I [...]
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